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A bathroom from Sarah's House on HGTV

Barnaby’s bathroom needs a makeover

By ADD | Published: November 15, 2010
My highly impractical outhouse chic bathroom has finally found its calling!  Though it does function well as a powder room, it’s not pretty yet and powder rooms should be pretty.    But, the tiny vintage clawfoot tub it houses is perfectly Barnaby-sized and the sides are high enough that he can’t escape from our sudsy [...]
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Kitchen Cabinet Inspiration

By ADD | Published: August 20, 2010
This lovely kitchen from Domino by photographer Melanie Acevedo reminds me that kitchen cabinets don’t have to be white.  I wasn’t interested in stained wood or laminate cabinets for our kitchen renovation.  I ultimately decided that we needed white painted cabinets to open up our tiny space, but I love these dark, matte, painted cabinets. [...]
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The Hunt: Junkyard Chic

By ADD | Published: August 17, 2010
I don’t have any pretty photos today, so I’m just going to show you some quick pix of my latest junkyard find.  I bought this solid wood vintage medicine cabinet with original beveled mirror ($60) on a recent Brooklyn thrift store junket and quickly sprayed it white so that I could hang it over my [...]
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Chartreuse and Grey

By ADD | Published: August 10, 2010
I ordered this Dwell Studio duvet from Target a few days ago for our master bedroom.   It’s so hard to know what you are getting from Target online, but the reviews of this item were great and it was (ahem) cheap.  I hope it will look nice with our gray walls (?).  Here’s the [...]
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A Bathroom Love Affair

By ADD | Published: July 27, 2010
I was just clicking through the June/July issue of Lonny (I know, I am so behind) and I noticed this black bathroom.  I thought if I put it on the same page as my bathroom, the two would have a wild love affair and spawn some great ideas. I just need more stuff in mine.  And some [...]
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Flor Corrogated Rib in Cinnabar

Decorate My Dining Room, Part 2

By ADD | Published: July 23, 2010
Following up on my recent invitation for readers to DECORATE MY DINING ROOM, here’s a wider view of the sad and barren room.  I got some great feedback in the comments to my first post and I hope you will keep the tough love coming. First things first, this room needs a rug to both warm [...]
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a very bare dining room after renovation

decorate my dining room, pretty please

By ADD | Published: July 16, 2010
Readers, please help this wayward blogger.  Renovation of the dining room on the parlor floor of our brownstone apartment is DONE.  But as you can see, this naked room is crying out for decor.  And a mop, but that’s a story for another post.  I thought I would decorate the minute we moved back in, [...]
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diywithadd choosing paint colors brownstone renovation

Do what I say, not what I did: painting

By ADD | Published: July 14, 2010
I just got this hot paint tip from Leila of design blog In the Weeds. She responded to my post detailing my haphazard and last minute paint color selections.  Leila says, “ You can also order (for FREE!) bigger color sheets from Benjamin Moore. Go on the Architect/Designer section of the website and you can order a slew [...]
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Master bath renovation. ©Moya Mc Allister

Master Bath: From Blah to Ooh-la-la

By ADD | Published: May 12, 2010
Let me start by saying that Scott is right about 95% of the time in renovation matters, which is far better than my track record.  But when it came to the master bath, he insisted on white walls above our white subway tile and he refused to listen to my nagging voice of reason for [...]
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Our soon-to-be-realized- floorpans.

Shades of Gray

By ADD | Published: March 31, 2010
I’m sitting in our backyard listening to the screeching whirl of a saw ripping eight inch poplar baseboards and watching tiny furled fronds push their way up through the soggy soil. I can imagine that the ferns are curling their way out of the ground as I write this.  There was no evidence of the [...]
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